Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy:

Effective as of: 2023-09-18
Last updated: 2023-09-18

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchases from any website that represent products or services from Dry Scientific Incorporated ("We", "Us", "Our", the "Company"), a California Corporation located in the United States of America, including drysci.com or dryscientific.com (the "Site"). Dry Scientific Incorporated operates the fictitious business names of Dry Scientific, Dry Scientific Inc. DrySci Inc., and DrySci. This document describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you:

  • Visit our website at drysci.com, or other sites that links to this privacy policy,
  • Engage with our sales, marketing, events or other related activities.

Our privacy policy aims to highlight the overlap of our responsibilities, your rights, and our procedures. Do not use our services if you do not agree with our policies and practices. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us using our contact form or by messaging privacy@drysci.com.

Privacy Policy Plain and Simple:

We take legal compliance seriously at Dry Scientific. Many politicians, lawyers, and policy makers have, in our opinion, have done a disservice to the public in creating an abundance of legal requirements that confuse facts, obscure intent and truth, and complicate what is most important: keeping your privacy. While some of these laws are good intentioned (and we are glad they are there) the act of fulfill the legal requirement results in a document that is complicated, filled with jargon, and difficult to understand. Long and complicated documents are great for sneaking in clauses to get your legal permission to do some pretty fishy (but legal) stuff - That's the part that we really don't like. The following summary is not legally required and is not legally binding, but is provided because we think understanding our intentions is important, and we want to be clear that we are not doing any fishy stuff.

Summary: We run a website, and we keep your data private.

  • Like all websites, it ONLY interacts with you IF you visit the website.
  • The website ONLY collects information about you IF you send information to the website.
  • We DO NOT sell the information that you have provided.
  • We use your information to provide the website and services to you and to improve which services we offer to you.
  • We carefully protect all our information as we store and move it in our systems.
  • We have employees and employ the services of other individuals and companies. On business tasks we pay them to do, they may see, engage, or process your data on our behalf.
  • Upon your request, your computer may do things, like download files from our website and display them or store them (Wild I know!?).
  • If you do not want to download, display, or store files, ensure the software you use to access our website is not doing things you don't want it to do.

Definitions

  • Services: We define this as any use, contact with, or electronic signal that involves or is directed towards our internet domains, as well as any use, storage, or transfer of software or programs that originate from our company even if provided by a third party or partner.
  • Third Parties: Individuals and organizations that are not owned, a parent company, or subsidiary of Dry Scientific.
  • Partners: Individuals or organizations that are not owned, a parent company, or subsidiary of Dry Scientific, but are engaged in business with us.
  • Process [Information]: This term is used so broadly in the legal sense that is basically encompass ANY use of data.
  • A List: A series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record.

Relevance of this Policy to You

Our services, such as our website, are used by a variety of people, such as our employees, clients, job applicants, employees, shareholders, customers, users, and people just taking a look. We collect a variety of information from the many people who interact with our website. Some of this information is to directly enable, provide or improve our services, some information we are required to collect by California, U.S. Government, or other law in specific cases for specific jurisdictions.

Information and Consent

Personal Information We Collect

We collect personal information you voluntarily provide to us. Personal data is information that is specific and can be linked to you or your household. The information that we collect depends on your interactions with us and our products. For example, if you purchase one of our products, you will be asked to provide information such as your name and billing details, or if you subscribe to our mailing list, you will be asked to provide your name and e-mail address. In all cases, any reasonable adult should find it obvious that they are willingly providing us information, what that information is, and why we are asking for it. Some common examples of information we collect includes the following:

  • billing addresses
  • contact or authentication data
  • contact preferences
  • passwords
  • usernames
  • job titles
  • job location
  • mailing addresses
  • email addresses
  • phone numbers
  • names
  • debit/credit card numbers

Sensitive Personal Information We Collect

Some of the information we collect is classified in some jurisdictions as "sensitive personal information". Sensitive personal information is a specific subset of personal information that includes certain government identifiers (such as social security numbers), account log-in information, financial account information, debit card, or credit card number with any required security code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account, diploma status and other educational information, employment history, emergency contact information, or legal residency status.

Technical Use Information We Automatically Collect

In order to operate our website, we automatically collect a variety of information when you when you access our site. This information is provide by you, although this may not be apparent as the web browsers or connection method you use may automatically provide this information to us. Some of this information is essential to directly providing you services (i.e. its impossible to send your computer our website so it can display it to you without knowing your IP address!). Some of this information is essential to operate our site (i.e. prevent malicious attacks, maintain security, or to understand how our site is being used so we can improve it). Examples of this information include:

  • IP address
  • browser details
  • device characteristics
  • operating system
  • language preferences
  • referring URLs
  • device name
  • country
  • location
  • internet service provider
  • web request details

As well as other technical and use information.

Information From Third Parties

If you register or sign in with an external authorized account (such as your meta or google account), we may have access to information about you, such as your meta or google log in name. We may receive profile information about you from your external authorized account provider. This often includes your name, email address, possible friends, profile picture, and sometimes other information you choose to make public on the external authorized account providers platform.

Giving Us Consent

We obtain your consent using your interaction with our services. Some examples: We use digital means such as HTTP requests, other electronic signals sent to our servers or receivers, and real world contact such as in person actions, remote telecomunication, signatures and letters. Most commonly we acept consent by HTTP request for automaticically collected information, and interactive mechanisms such as text boxes, check boxes, button clicks, selecting answers from a list, or digital signatures. Our method of consent varies with the service or good being provided. We make substantial effort to ensure that the method of consent is clear, obvious, and in line with common or best practice.

Withdrawing Consent

If you have previously given us consent, you may withdraw your consent in a variety of methods that are specific to the type of consent given. Most typically, general users can delete their user accounts, or unsubscribe from our mailing lists. Your user account may also have a variety of settings that allow you to control how we use your information, and you may change these settings at any time from your user account interface.

Some consent has been established by law, and cannot be withdrawn. Some consent has been established by legal contract and if withdrawn may result in a breach of contract. Please ensure that you understand the consequences of withdrawing consent before doing so.

What we do with your information

We Don't Sell Your Information

We don't sell personal data relating to our users or user accounts. Your jurisdiction may impart to you a right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. This right is still your right and exists, but as we do not sell personal data or information there is no capacity to exercise your right.

We Use Your Information ("Process")

So if we don't sell your information, why did we collect it? It turns out we collected it because we use your information to provide you services! Our company is based off the concept of providing products and services to our clients and customers. Most of our use of your information is really obvious. For example, our "subscribe to our e-mail insights" newsletter subscription box asks for your email, and if you input an email there, we use that very email to send you our newsletter (Wow, what a concept!).

Humor aside, we also use your information for some less obvious reasons. In the legal sense, basically any transfer, use or storage of your information is considered "processing" your information. For example: We "process" your information when we send you an email, such as when you request a password reset. In the broader sense, our actions can be broken down into several categories: Provide and improve our services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. Here are some examples of when we use your information:

  • To create a user account after you click a submission button.
  • To log you into your account
  • To provide you services
  • To provide you user or account support
  • To send you legal and administrative messages
  • To send you marketing and promotional messages
  • To send you updates on terms or products you are engaged with
  • To request feedback from you
  • To determine if your account is being used fradulently
  • Identify usage trends and service interuptions
  • To ensure we are meeting our legal obligations

When and With Whom We Share Your Personal Information

We may share your information in specific situations where we are legally required to do so.

We may share your information with our employees, contractors, and other third parties who need access to your information to provide us services. We pride ourselves on being able to do a lot in house, but as a small company sometimes we depending on getting a little extra help. All of our contractors and third parties are required to follow this privacy policy, we only contract with third parties who have demonstrated a commitment to information security on their own, and we only work with third parties who have legally binding disclosure agreements on file with us. Some examples include:

  • During buisness dealing involving a transfer, merger, or sale of our company or assets.
  • To our buisness partners who work for us.
  • Within our family of companies, which include parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

We may transfer, store, and process information in many locations

We use a variety of technologies to help us provide our Services. The majority of these services are located within the United States of America. However some of the resources we use may move your information to other countries, such as cloud storage providers. If you are accessing our Services outside the United States, be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us on computer hardware owned or operated by us or by other companies that we contract to provide us computational, data storage, and other hardware or process related services.

How long we keep your information

We keep your personal information for as long as you maintain an account with unless otherwise required by law. Examples of requirements that last longer than your account may include tax or financial information, accounting, as assembled evidence for audits, or other legal requirements. Our internal policy does not require us to maintain your personal information for longer than six (6) months past the termination of your user account. Typically we delete your information immediately upon account termination, but may anonymize certain information to prevent impostor accounts or other fraud. In some cases deletion is not possible, such as when the law requires us to keep it, when we need it to protect our rights, or when archives are in cold storage. Please note that archival data is never used without undergoing deletion or anonymization first.

Cookies and Access or Storage of Information

Our cookie policy further details the use of cookies on our site, and related access or storage technologies. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, and most websites do not function properly without them. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. Connecting to our services without cookies enabled may result in unexpected behavior.

Advertising Affiliates (People who would pay us money to show you adds)

At this time we do not contract any of our services or web properties with interest-based advertising agencies. There is no need to opt-out of interest-based advertising because we do not use it.

Saftey of your data

Information security

In short, we try our best. Information security is an ongoing and challenging discipline. We have implemented strict and modern technical and organizational security measures designed to secure the information under our control, including your personal information. We furthermore only contract with third parties who have demonstrated a commitment to information security and have policies that we believe are inline with our own.

Please note, that the world wide web (the Internet) is a world wide network of computers and devices, very very few of which we own and can control. Electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although robust and challenging, we cannot guarantee that governments, independent hackers, or other third parties may be able to overcome our security and steal or modify your information. These same parties may also be able to impersonate our Services and trick you into providing information to them, or purchase your information from other sources that could be then used to authenticate your access to our Services. Make sure your connection to the internet is done through a secure environment, and with a clear understanding of the risks involved.

Control of your data

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can log in to your account settings and make alterations to your account. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

Review, update or delete information

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. Account holders may review, update, or delete the majority of the personal information we might have by logging into their account, or request though the contact form for an addtional search. Individuals without accounts may request though our contact form.

Unsupported Features and Consumer segments

Features with undefined standards

Some web browsers, some mobile operating systems, and mobile applications include additional features that have not been standardize and are not widely supported. For example, a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting indicates to website a privacy preference, or a dark mode setting indicate a visual display preference. Unfortunately, many of these newer features are not yet standardized, and are cumbersome to implement. At this time we do not guarantee support for any features with undefined standards, such as any mechanism that automatically communicates privacy preference. We do expect our Third Party advertising companies to use reasonable efforts to respect browser DNT signals by not delivering targeted advertisements to website visitors whose browsers have a Do Not Track setting enabled. We, however, acknowledge that some companies do not have support for this. To learn more about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.org/.

Children and Minors

We do not market or provide products or services relevant to minors or children. Who is a minor or a child varies by jurisdiction, but we suspect it unlikely that people under the age of 18 years would have reason to use our services, and we have most certainly not created a websites or online service aimed at children under 13 years old. By using this website you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are an independent minor with full legal autonomy. The parent or guardian of a minor may in some jurisdictions provide consent for the minor to use our Services, under which we will permit its use.

We have a prompt and strict deactivate and delete policy in instances where minors are using our services without appropriate consent. To report a minor using our services without appropriate consent, please contact us at privacy@drysci.com with information that will enable identification of the minors account.

General Terms

Updating our terms

We invest a large effort into legal compliance, and for online privacy this is a dynamic and chaotic discipline that frequently changes. We may update this privacy notice from time to time, most frequently to maintain compliance with new laws or to improve its clarity and transparency. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes that grant or remove new rights and do not directly relate to legal compliance (i.e. a change in our policy or intent on how we use your data), we will notify you by email (if you have an account with us) or by posting a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to review this privacy notice very frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

Contact us

If you have questions or comments about this notice we encourage you to use our contact form. You may also contact our head of information security, Dr. Ryan J. McCarty, at privacy@drysci.com, by phone at +1 805-791-8587. Or the postal address for the agent for service kept up-to-date and on file with the California Secretary of State in Sacramento California.

Acting Head of Information Security
Dr. Ryan J. McCarty
privacy@drysci.com
+1 805-791-8587

Privacy compliance for specific jurisdictions: